Daily Archives: July 26, 2002

It’s not like the Drug War imagery went away with the actual war, vis:

Drug agents launched a two-day assault Thursday on marijuana growers in Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties, scouting the lucrative green plants by air and then sending in ground troops to pull and destroy.

The State of Alabama can’t even promise that there will be courts open to hold trials, and we know there’s not enough prison space for these dangerous criminals. But hey, they destroyed a bunch of pot! That’s worthwhile, right?

A Chinese expert says that there are two ways to beat the Dreaded Chinese Snakehead Walking Fish: Either catch them all, or drain the pond. He also says that the DCSWF can jump high enough that breeders have to raise the edges of their ponds 50 centimeters. That’s a little more than a foot and a half in non-made-up units.

In Singapore, they like the Dreaded Chinese Snakehead Walking Fish. They eat it, in soup or stir-fried. They wear protective gear when harvesting it, though. And they say it can only wriggle around on the ground during the rainy season.

He said it fights back when being harvested. If the fish strikes a person on the face or chest, it could cause some bleeding but the wound is not likely to be serious, he added.

“It doesn’t attack humans unless it’s hungry and you fall into the pond,” Koh was quoted as saying.

This is somewhat reprehensible, yes? A district court judge — who should be impeached — ordered it, and the higher circuit court judge has ordered the sample held for possible testing but none to be done now.